For nearly a century, marbled salamanders vanished from a Massachusetts forest as urbanization swallowed their habitat whole.

Locals gave it names like snot otter and lasagna lizard, and scientists mostly looked the other way until populations began vanishing. Now researchers racing to understand North America's largest ...

Appalachia is one of the richest salamander regions on Earth, with the video noting more than 77 species in the mountains ...

The Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, weighing upwards of 140 pounds and growing to a length of more than 5.9 feet Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha via Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

A massive, extinct salamander with jaws like a vice once roamed ancient Tennessee and its fossil has just rewritten what we thought we knew about Appalachian amphibians. Named Dynamognathus robertsoni ...

Aneides vagrans, also called the wandering salamander, is an elusive critter. Its natural habitat is the canopy of California's redwood trees, the world's tallest trees, making it tough to observe.

A striking fire salamander rests on a mossy rock beside shallow water, displaying the brilliant yellow markings that contrast ...

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